One 404 Error away from Madness

Yesterday I spent about 2 hours uploading 17 images to my blog. 17 measly images that should have been uploaded already during the process of importing my posts on the new install anyway, yet didn’t. There are more, many more images that didn’t import correctly, but those 17 were the ones that I planned to fix today. As in: quickly.

As during the last time I quickly wanted to upload the missing images, the process was riddled with http errors, failed uploads and 404’s. As already mentioned, it took two hours to get 16 of the 17 uploaded. One image still fails, shows as thumbnail in backend and frontend, loads when asked to, but doesn’t show in the gallery. It’s a mystery.

The problem is, that I’m not sure in which direction to yell. Might be WordPress, might be my web-host (probably), some plug-in, my ISP, the weather, the dude next door? So I’m doing the only reasonable thing and yell here:

THISISUTTERGARBAGEAND A TOTAL $h1TSHOW ANDITEFFINGNEEDSTOSTOPORTHROWALLOFTHISINTO A FRICKINGDUMPSTERANDMOVETOJEKYLLORWHATEVERELSETHEREISOUTTHERE! AAAAAAAAARRRRGHH!

So, now that I’m done venting and feel a bit better, it is clear that I will stick with WordPress anyway. I tried many other services in the past and yet eventually figured that Wordpress does all the things that I need to, including some I don’t.